ACCP is now offering its resident, fellow, and graduate student members the opportunity to establish a mentor-mentee relationship with an established professional outside their training program.

The ACCP National Resident Advisory Committee determined that a formal mentoring program would help advance ACCP’s strategic plan by enhancing the professional development of postgraduate trainees and fostering the development of future leaders within clinical pharmacy and ACCP. Because of the positive feedback received from the participants in a 2011–2012 pilot mentoring program, ACCP is expanding the accessibility of this program to all resident, fellow, and graduate student members.

Mentees will have the opportunity to receive career and professional development guidance on issues like job hunting, interviewing, curriculum vitae and letter-of-intent writing, publishing, preparing for promotion, and funding research. They may also receive an external perspective on the different components of their training program. The networking opportunities will likely be beneficial as well.

Resident, fellow, and graduate student members of ACCP can search for a mentor who matches their therapeutic and geographic interests on the ACCP Web site at http://www.accp.com/resfel/mentor.aspx. Mentors are ACCP-member volunteers with at least 5 years of professional work experience after their training. If you have questions about the program or would like to become a volunteer mentor, please contact Keri Sims at [email protected].